Marcos acknowledges Aquino’s last-ditch effort in saving Veloso from execution

Without directly mentioning his name, President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. recognized the last-ditch appeal made by one of his predecessors, the late President

Benigno Aquino III, in saving former Filipina death row inmate Mary Jane Veloso from execution in 2015.

“That’s why our immense gratitude must go to Indonesia. We must give our huge thanks to the last president and present president—President Widodo, President Prabowo now—because of their consent, we are able to achieve this,” he said mostly in Tagalog. “Saving Mary Jane Veloso traversed administrations. During the time of PNoy, the DOJ and DFA worked for a last-minute reprieve on Mary Jane’s scheduled execution culminating in a midnight phone call of PNoy to then President Widodo of Indonesia,” De Lima said.

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